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02 / PHRASE STUDY · PADĀRTHAShownHidden
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Śloka 76: Overview
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
With his body consumed by the flames of Hara’s anger—
the mind-born Kāma plunges into the deep lake of your navel.
From it, daughter of the mountain, a slender trail of smoke rises.
People call it the fine line of hair upon your body, Mother.
Selected phrases and English meanings for Śloka 76
Selected phrase
Meaning in context
by the flames of Śiva’s anger; with his body consumed
in the deep lake of your navel
Kāma immersed himself
rose up from it, O mountain’s daughter
a slender trail of smoke
people recognise it
as your line of fine hair, O Mother
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Śloka 76: Words
Word / source phrase
Meaning in context
anger
flame
with the body
in the deep
navel
in the lake
Kāma
smoke
little creeper
hair
About these phrase meanings
Short phrases and parts of compounds, not a complete word-by-word translation. Original sandhi and spelling are retained; some words continue across printed lines. Read the entries together. Brackets in the English supply context rather than additional Sanskrit words.
The English explanations are editorial study aids and have not been reviewed by a Sanskrit scholar. Consult a teacher or full commentary for grammatical and interpretive detail. Telugu-Vigananam keeps its printed spellings, hyphens, and variant readings; the English follows the base Sanskrit unless a note explains a difference.
03 / SIMPLE MEANINGShownHidden
A first understanding.
Burned by Śiva's anger, Kāma plunges into the deep lake of Her navel. What people call the fine line of hair is imagined as smoke rising from him.
CONDENSED EDITORIAL PARAPHRASE
04 / DETAILED MEANINGShownHidden
How the verse unfolds.
The navel becomes a deep lake into which Kāma plunges after his body is consumed by Śiva's angry fire. That event supplies the imagined cause of a visible feature.
A slender trail of smoke rises and is taken by observers to be the line of fine hair. The poem distinguishes what people see from the story the poet proposes behind it. Fire, water and smoke organise the transition from myth to bodily image.
EDITORIAL EXPLANATION · NOT A TRADITIONAL COMMENTARY
05 / DEEPER CONTEMPLATIONShownHidden
A question to carry.
What happens to a familiar detail when you imagine a story of how it came to be?